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• The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable?, 20 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• A Virtual Tour of Ancient Athens: Fly Over Classical Greek Civilization in All Its Glory, 19 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• ChatGPT Writes a Song in the Style of Nick Cave–and Nick Cave Calls it “a Grotesque Mockery of What It Is to Be Human”, 18 Jan 2023 in Music&Technology
• The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery: A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels, 17 Jan 2023 in Art&Books&Literature
• How Futurists Envisioned the Future in the 1920s: Moving Walkways, Personal Helicopters, Glass-Domed Cities, Dream Recorders & More, 16 Jan 2023 in History&Sci Fi&Technology
• Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, You Can Now Chat with Historical Figures: Shakespeare, Einstein, Austen, Socrates & More, 13 Jan 2023 in History&Technology
• An Architect Demystifies the Art Deco Design of the Iconic Chrysler Building (1930), 12 Jan 2023 in Architecture&History
• Humans First Started Wearing Clothes At Least 300,000 Years Ago, New Research Finds, 11 Jan 2023 in Fashion&History
• The Oldest Known Sentence Written in an Alphabet Has Been Found on a Head-Lice Comb (Circa 1700 BC), 10 Jan 2023 in History
• Visit the “Cat Islands” of Japan, Where Felines Outnumber Humans, 09 Jan 2023 in Nature&Travel
• How to Watch Hundreds of Free Movies on YouTube, 06 Jan 2023 in Film
• How to Make Ancient Mesopotamian Beer: See the 4,000-Year-Old Brewing Method Put to the Test, 05 Jan 2023 in Food & Drink&History
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More, 04 Jan 2023 in Books&Film&Music
• “Weird Al” Yankovic Breaks Down His Most Iconic Tracks: “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise,” “White and Nerdy,” and His Other Hilarious Songs, 03 Jan 2023 in Comedy&Music
• The Archives of the Planet: Explore 72,000 Photos Taken a Century Ago to Document Human Cultures Around the World, 03 Jan 2023 in History&Photography&Travel
• How the Ancient Romans Built Their Roads, the Lifelines of Their Vast Empire, 02 Jan 2023 in History
• Watch Restored Versions of Classic Fleischer Cartoons on Youtube, Featuring Betty Boop, Koko the Clown & Others, 30 Dec 2022 in Animation&Film&History
• How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials, 28 Dec 2022 in Architecture&History
• How Fast Food Began: The History of This Thoroughly American (and Now Global) Form of Dining, 28 Dec 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• American Gothic Explained: How Grant Wood Created His Iconic American Painting (1930), 27 Dec 2022 in Art&History
• How a Lavish 17th-Century Study of Fish Almost Prevented the Publication of Newton’s Principia, One of the Most Important Science Books Ever Written, 26 Dec 2022 in Books&History&Nature&Science
• An Old-Time Radio Yuletide: Hear 20+ Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Shows (1938–1956), 23 Dec 2022 in Radio
• Tom Lehrer Puts His Songs into the Public Domain & Makes Them Free to Download (for a Limited Time), 22 Dec 2022 in Music
• The Roman Roads and Bridges You Can Still Travel Today, 21 Dec 2022 in Architecture&History
• The History of Western Art in 23 Minutes: From the Prehistoric to the Contemporary, 20 Dec 2022 in Art&History
• The Avant-Garde Animated Films of Walter Ruttmann, Still Strikingly Fresh a Century Later (1921–1925), 19 Dec 2022 in Animation&Film
• Behold Beautiful Original Movie Posters for Metropolis from France, Sweden, Germany, Japan & Beyond, 16 Dec 2022 in Design&Film
• Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber, 16 Dec 2022 in Film
• Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986–2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More, 15 Dec 2022 in Film&Music
• The Museum of Wonky English, a Japanese Exhibition Dedicated to Hilarious Mistranslations, 14 Dec 2022 in Language Lessons&Museums&Writing
• How to Get Dressed & Fight in 14th Century Armor: A Reenactment, 14 Dec 2022 in History
• How Will AI Change the World?: A Captivating Animation Explores the Promise & Perils of Artificial Intelligence, 13 Dec 2022 in Animation&Artificial Intelligence&Technology
• The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch: A Short Introduction, 13 Dec 2022 in Art&History&Psychology
• 480 Filmmakers Reveal the 100 Greatest Movies in the World, 08 Dec 2022 in Film
• The 30 Greatest Films Ever Made: A Video Essay, 07 Dec 2022 in Film
• How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A British Museum Curator Explains, 06 Dec 2022 in History&Museums&Writing
• The 100 Greatest Films of All Time According to 1,639 Film Critics & 480 Directors: See the Results of the Once-a-Decade Sight and Sound Poll, 02 Dec 2022 in Film
• A Chinese Painter Specializing in Copying Van Gogh Paintings Travels to Amsterdam & Sees Van Gogh’s Masterpieces for the First Time, 01 Dec 2022 in Art
• See 21 Historic Films by Lumière Brothers, Colorized and Enhanced with Machine Learning (1895–1902), 30 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• 8th Century Englishwoman Scribbled Her Name & Drew Funny Pictures in a Medieval Manuscript, According to New Cutting-Edge Technology, 29 Nov 2022 in Books&History
• Ancient Roman Coins Reveal the Existence of a Forgotten Roman Emperor, 28 Nov 2022 in History
• A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More, 25 Nov 2022 in History
• When Salvador Dalí Dressed — and Angrily Demolished — a Department Store Window in New York City (1939), 25 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• A Relaxing, ASMR Re-Creation of People Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner in the 1820s, 23 Nov 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• The First Kiss Captured on Film: Behold “The Kiss” Shot by Photography Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge (1887), 22 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• Why Recent Decades All Feel Culturally the Same, and Why Mark Fisher Thought Capitalism Was to Blame, 22 Nov 2022 in Politics
• Banksy Spray Paints Murals in War-Torn Ukraine, 21 Nov 2022 in Art&Politics
• Did Psychedelic Mushrooms Appear in Medieval Christian Art?: A Video Essay, 18 Nov 2022 in Art&History&Psychology&Religion
• Watch Videos for 10 Songs on Brian Eno’s Brand New Album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, 17 Nov 2022 in Music
• A Tour of Studio Ghibli’s Brand New Theme Park in Japan, Which Re-Creates the Worlds of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Other Classics, 16 Nov 2022 in Animation&Travel
• When the World Got Introduced to the Amazing Compact Disc (CD) in 1982, 16 Nov 2022 in Music&Technology
• The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary”, 15 Nov 2022 in Books
• How to Argue Effectively: Harvard Negotiation Expert Shares Techniques for Arguing Effectively, Especially About Politics, 14 Nov 2022 in Psychology
• Behold Illustrations of Every Shakespeare Play Created by Artificial Intelligence, 11 Nov 2022 in Art&Artificial Intelligence&Technology&Theatre
• The Rise and Fall of Concorde, the Midcentury Supersonic Jetliner That Still Inspires Awe Today, 10 Nov 2022 in History&Technology&Travel
• Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art, 10 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• The Fiske Reading Machine: The 1920s Precursor to the Kindle, 09 Nov 2022 in Books&History&Technology
• Around the World in 1896: 40 Minutes of Real Footage Lets You Visit Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, Budapest & More, 08 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• The History of Jazz Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Phonograph: Features 1,000+ Musicians, Artists, Songwriters and Producers, 07 Nov 2022 in Design&Music
• The Comiclopedia: An Online Archive of 14,000 Comic Artists, From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, to Mœbius and Hergé, 04 Nov 2022 in Comics/Cartoons
• Michael Pollan, Sam Harris & Others Explain How Psychedelics Can Change Your Mind, 02 Nov 2022 in Psychology
• Kierkegaard on Why We All Misunderstand the True Meaning of Love: An Animated Explanation, 01 Nov 2022 in Life&Philosophy
• How a Mondrian Painting Has Accidentally Hung Upside-Down for 75 Years, 31 Oct 2022 in Art
• Hear 149 Vintage Halloween Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio, 28 Oct 2022 in Radio
• See Metropolis’ Scandalous Dance Scene Colorized, Enhanced, and Newly Soundtracked, 27 Oct 2022 in Film
• What Sex Was Like in Medieval Times?: Historians Look at How People Got It On in the Dark Ages, 26 Oct 2022 in History
• Discover Nüshu, a 19th-Century Chinese Writing System That Only Women Knew How to Write, 25 Oct 2022 in History&Language&Writing
• There Are Eight Forms of Intelligence, Not Just One: Which Apply to You?, 25 Oct 2022 in Psychology
• The Internet Archive Launches Democracy’s Library, a Free Online Library of 500,000 Documents Supporting Democracy, 24 Oct 2022 in Archives&Politics
• The French Designed a Fake Replica of Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I, 21 Oct 2022 in History
• What the Rosetta Stone Actually Says, 19 Oct 2022 in History&Language
• Why Quentin Tarantino Will Only Make 10 Movies, 19 Oct 2022 in Film
• DALL‑E, the New AI Art Generator, Is Now Open for Everyone to Use, 18 Oct 2022 in Art&Technology
• How Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” Went from 80s Pop Smash to Bastion of Internet Culture: A Short Documentary, 14 Oct 2022 in History&Music
• Behold the World’s Oldest Animation Made on a Vase in Iran 5,200 Years Ago, 13 Oct 2022 in Animation&History
• Simone de Beauvoir Speaks on American TV (in English) About Feminism, Abortion & More (1976), 13 Oct 2022 in Philosophy&Television
• Watch Vintage Videos Capturing Life in Japan from the 1960s Through Today, 12 Oct 2022 in Film&History&Travel
• How to Predict What the World Will Look Like in 2122: Insights from Futurist Peter Schwartz, 10 Oct 2022 in Harvard&History&Technology
• 1950s Pulp Comic Adaptations of Ray Bradbury Stories Getting Republished, 07 Oct 2022 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• Why Monet Painted The Same Haystacks 25 Times, 06 Oct 2022 in Art&History
• When a Modern Director Makes a Fake Old Movie: A Video Essay on David Fincher’s Mank, 06 Oct 2022 in Film
• Why Goya Made His Haunting “Black Paintings” at the End of His Life, 05 Oct 2022 in Art&History
• Lizzo Plays James Madison’s Priceless, 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute, 03 Oct 2022 in History&Music
• How Writing Has Spread Across the World, from 3000 BC to This Year: An Animated Map, 30 Sep 2022 in Maps
• What It’s Like to Work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Office Building, 30 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Meet the Hyperpolyglots, the People Who Can Mysteriously Speak Up to 32 Different Languages, 29 Sep 2022 in Language
• When Marlon Brando Refused the Oscar for His Role in The Godfather to Support the Rights of Native Americans (1973), 28 Sep 2022 in History&Television
• The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands, 28 Sep 2022 in History
• The Biggest Mistakes in Mapmaking History, 27 Sep 2022 in Maps
• Doctors in Brussels Can Now Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatments for Stress, Anxiety & Depression, 26 Sep 2022 in Museums&Psychology
• How the World Trade Center Was Rebuilt: A Visual Exploration of a 20-Year Project, 26 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Why Mapmakers Once Thought California Was an Island, 23 Sep 2022 in History&Maps
• Goodbye to the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s Strangest and Most Utopian Apartment Building, 22 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Never Too Small: Architects Give Tours of Tiny Homes in Paris, Melbourne, Milan, Hong Kong & Beyond, 21 Sep 2022 in Architecture
• Getting Dressed Over the Centuries: 35 Videos Show How Women & Men Put on Clothes During Ancient, Medieval & Modern Times, 20 Sep 2022 in Fashion&History
• 5 Ways to Build an Alzheimer’s-Resistant Brain: Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Explains, 19 Sep 2022 in Life&Neuroscience
• The Evolution of the Electric Guitar: An Introduction to Every Major Variety of the Instrument That Made Rock-and-Roll, 16 Sep 2022 in History&Music&Technology
• The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century, 15 Sep 2022 in History&Technology
• How The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented Psychological Horror Film & Brought Expressionism to the Screen (1920), 14 Sep 2022 in Film&History
• RIP Jean-Luc Godard: Watch the French New Wave Icon Explain His Contrarian Worldview Back in the 1960s, 14 Sep 2022 in Film&History
• The Beauty & Ingenuity of the Pantheon, Ancient Rome’s Best-Preserved Monument: An Introduction, 13 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• The First Transit Map: a Close Look at the Subway-Style Tabula Peutingeriana of the 5th-Century Roman Empire, 12 Sep 2022 in History&Maps
• Hear Queen Elizabeth II Give Her Very First Speech to the British People, During World War II (1940), 09 Sep 2022 in History
• See the First 8K Footage of the Titanic, the Highest-Quality Video of the Shipwreck Yet, 08 Sep 2022 in History
• An AI-Generated Painting Won First Prize at a State Fair & Sparked a Debate About the Essence of Art, 07 Sep 2022 in Art&Technology
• Listen to Music Playlists to Help You Study Like Nietzsche, Socrates, Kant & Other Great Thinkers, 07 Sep 2022 in Music&Philosophy
• The Improbable Invention of Chinese Typewriters & Computer Keyboards: Three Videos Tell the Techno-Cultural Story, 06 Sep 2022 in History&Technology
• Kino Lorber Puts Online 75 Free Films, 02 Sep 2022 in Film
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Creates Images to Match the Lyrics of Iconic Songs: David Bowie’s “Starman,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” & More, 01 Sep 2022 in Artificial Intelligence&Music&Technology
• The Atomic Café: The Cult Classic Documentary Made Entirely Out of Nuclear Weapons Propaganda from the Cold War (1982), 31 Aug 2022 in Film&History
• Christopher Hitchens’ Final Interview: Hear the Newly-Released Uncut Conversation with Richard Dawkins, 30 Aug 2022 in Religion&Science
• How Cinema Inspired Edward Hopper’s Great Paintings, and How Edward Hopper Inspired Great Filmmakers, 29 Aug 2022 in Art&Film
• Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More, 26 Aug 2022 in Archives&Art&Museums
• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: Watch the Six-Part Series with Bill Moyers (1988), 25 Aug 2022 in Religion&Television
• Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer, 24 Aug 2022 in Food & Drink
• Pink Lady and Jeff: Japan’s Biggest Pop Musicians Star in One of America’s Worst-Reviewed TV Shows (1980), 23 Aug 2022 in History&Music&Television
• How Salman Rushdie Has Lived and Written Under the Threat of Death: a Free Documentary, 22 Aug 2022 in Current Affairs&Literature&Television
• What Made Better Call Saul a Master Class in Visual Storytelling: A Video Essay, 19 Aug 2022 in Television
• “When We All Have Pocket Telephones”: A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives, 18 Aug 2022 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Technology
• The Brilliantly Nightmarish Art & Troubled Life of Painter Francis Bacon, 17 Aug 2022 in Art&History
• Orson Welles Reads the Abolitionist John Brown’s Final Speech After Being Sentenced to Death, 17 Aug 2022 in History
• What Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unusual Windows Tell Us About His Architectural Genius, 16 Aug 2022 in Architecture&History
• Olivia Newton-John (RIP) Reunites with Grease Co-Star John Travolta to Sing “You’re The One That I Want” (2002), 12 Aug 2022 in Film&Music
• All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist, 11 Aug 2022 in Music&Television
• The Photo That Triggered China’s Disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966), 10 Aug 2022 in History&Photography
• When Helen Keller Met Charlie Chaplin and Taught Him Sign Language (1919), 09 Aug 2022 in Film&History
• Damien Hirst’s NFT Experiment Comes to an End: How Many Buyers Chose Digital Tokens Over Physical Artworks?, 09 Aug 2022 in Art&Technology
• What a Disney Version of A Clockwork Orange Would Look Like, 04 Aug 2022 in Animation&Film
• The Last Cigarette Commercial Ever Aired on American TV (1971), 02 Aug 2022 in History&Television
• As Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura, Nichelle Nichols (RIP) Starred in “TV’s First Interracial Kiss” in 1968, 01 Aug 2022 in History&Television
• Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary Rewatch Cult-Classic Movies on Their New Video Archives Podcast, 29 Jul 2022 in Film&Podcasts
• Scenes from The Wizard of Oz Remastered in Brilliant 4K Detail: Behold the Work of a Creative YouTuber, 29 Jul 2022 in Film
• Visit Great Cities in the 1920s in Restored Color Film: New York City, London, Berlin, Paris, Venice & More, 28 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Watch 70+ Soviet Films Free Online, Courtesy of Mosfilm, the Hollywood of the Soviet Union, 27 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• When Erik Satie Took a Picture of Debussy & Stravinsky (June 1910), 25 Jul 2022 in History&Music&Photography
• Free Documentaries from Spain Let You Watch the Traditional Making of Wine, Cheese, Churros, Honey & More, 22 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965, 21 Jul 2022 in History&Music
• The Birdsong Project Features 220 Musicians, Actors, Artists & Writers Paying Tribute to Birds: Watch Performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello and Beck, 20 Jul 2022 in Music&Nature
• A Virtual Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Japanese Masterpiece, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, 20 Jul 2022 in Architecture&History
• Japanese Restaurants Show You How to Make Traditional Dishes in Meditative Videos: Soba, Tempura, Udon & More, 19 Jul 2022 in Food & Drink&Travel